La La Land - A Story of Lingering Attachments and Regrets
La
La Land
is a film that harkens back to the Golden Age of Hollywood’s movie musicals.
Singing, dancing and great romantic story lines abound as well as the
outstanding performances of Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone (Stone received an
Oscar for Best Actress for her performance). This movie will remind many of
their first love and goals or successes that are unable to be achieved in one’s
past. One could also call these memories regrets and/or lingering attachments.
Director Damien Chazelle allows the viewer to look back on their dreams and
loves through a beautiful performance by Gosling.
There
is no one who can say that he or she has a completely fulfilled or satisfying
life. After all, we all live with regrets. It’s often been said that we all
live in the past instead of living in the present moment. In modern society,
many people suffer with depression and mental illnesses. When we seek therapy
or counseling, it shows that we live with these burdens of past traumas, loss
and emotional scars. Let’s consider what the human mind really is.
When
we are born, our minds are already inherited from our ancestors' minds. These
minds are imprinted in every cell of our body. Our body works like a camera that
constantly takes pictures of the world. We store these pictures in our mind and
live in this picture world we’ve created instead of the real world. This leads
to stress and pain. We exist in the present, but not many people really live in
the true present. Truth is seeing the world the way it is. Since we all live in
our overlapping mind world, we are incomplete.
Nature
does not make its own mind world. Nature does not cling to the past nor does it
have any regrets. Only humans remember everything that has happened in their
lives from birth to the present. Only humans repeatedly think about
heartbreaking events that have happened in the past. Since humans live in the
present moment only thinking of past grief and regret, people feel sad and
depressed. Isn’t it painful and tough?
La
La Land
depicts lingering attachments and regrets through Gosling’s portrayal of
Sebastian. It describes unattainable love and an unaccomplished dream. Many
people will empathize about these points.
We
all know that whatever has happened in the past does not exist anymore. But as
humans, we are all very highly functioning cameras. We do not let go of
the things that have happened in our lives. We live our present life with
reactions, judgements and regrets from our painful past. Isn't this pitiful and
frustrating?
This
is why it can be said that people are living in a dead state and not living in
the true universe. Ask yourself: Do you really live in the true world? Do you
simply see and live in this world without any pain and burden? If you can
answer ‘yes,’ then you are a complete, true human being. Generally speaking,
one cannot be complete unless he meets the right teacher and meditation method
to become complete. One must meet one who is already Truth and learn the
meditation method.
I
consider myself very lucky. I have met the right teacher who can teach me the
method and I have been diligently practicing this meditation method. Simply
being born and living are meaningless unless we become complete. No one else
has my personal regrets and lingering attachments. They do not exist in the
real world. They are my own illusionary burdens. Those illusionary burdens only
cause me pain and hardship.
We
must break free of that pain and burden while we are alive. We should break out
of the false world so we can live again in the true world. This meditation will
help people to break their own painful false world and be reborn in the true
world. This is the method.
It
is pointless for only a few to know about this meditation method. We should all
practice this meditation. Now is the time to become a complete human being. Let
us study this method and meditate.
Awake
from the regrets and attachments in the past. Let us live in the true world
with blessings; no longer living in La La Land.